Nick Hilliard wrote:
On 05/02/2013 07:55, Randy Bush wrote: [...] Removal of some registration data as a short term prospect: e.g. drop DNS server entries. Again, I think this is unnecessarily aggressive.
Not only "unnecessarily aggressive" but potentially destructive to the RIR system. There's an organisation out there, which tried to go down that road, a while ago, with ccTLDs as targeted victims. It became pretty noisy, pretty quickly, and would have had a major impact on the administration of the root zone... I definitely know, that there are parties out there, which would be more than happy to get their feet into the pool and to offer such services to LRHs for free, at least for a loooong time. I fear that such a move would break quite some stuff that we got to enjoy and would like to perserve for the future of the numbers registries.
Time limited amnesty: free registration for X period of time if you engage within Y period. Or some other carrot.
Free-for-all-time-for-everyone: as irresponsible as short-term deregistration.
I am not sure that this statement would hold. You semm to be ignoring that many of those LRHs (early adopters and developers) were spending quite a big amount of money to start and to develop the IPv4-based Internet. The same one that quite a few of us take for granted these days and making money with ;-) Thus I do not consider continuation of providing a (proportionally really cheep) service for them as "irresponsible". Actually this same service has been offered for more than 20 years and the community didn't scream :-) Wilfried